Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer’s Disease

Abstract

We report the positive identification of several members of the guerrillasled by Ernesto {"Che"} Guevara on the 1960 s in Bolivia by meansof {DNA} fingerprinting. Successful {DNA} typing of both short tandemrepeat loci and the hypervariable region of the human mitochondrial{DNA} was achieved after extracting total {DNA} from bones obtainedfrom two burial sites. Given the size of the Cuban database for the{STR} allele frequencies, a conservative approach was followed toestimate the statistical significance of the genetic evidence. Theestimated probabilities of paternity for the two cases in which thepaternity logic was applied were higher than 99%. One case was analyzedusing mitochondrial {DNA} and could not be excluded from the identityproposed by the forensic anthropology team. A fourth case was identifiedby exclusion, on the basis of the positive identification of theother remains, the historical and other anthropological evidence.